As outlined, my approach is via Cognitive Therapy followed by a hypnosis session to reaffirm all those new beliefs. You get the best of both worlds. Believe me, this approach is extremely effective and very thorough - the whole programme takes around 3 hours or so. It is as though for years you have fooled and kidded yourself that smoking was helping you in some way and of course, that's one of the reasons you have carried on doing it. The perceived 'fear of loss' and 'fear of the fear of stopping' will have been major factors in ensuring that the smoking problem has continued, despite all the major health risks and high cost of smoking.

Roughly 50% of my clients come from recommendations; some 'off the record' from doctors, but mainly past clients. I can't force you stop smoking, but I can help you if you truly want to get free.

Hypnosis isn't magic and you are paying for my time, knowledge and experience. The results will come from your own understanding and application of what you have learned. Quitting can be easy and fun when you know how! There is no doubt that if you understand and follow the plan to the letter, you will stop smoking.

Money-Back Guarantee

I have been asked many times if I offer a money-back guarantee, the same as one or two other stop smoking clinics. Well I could, but my cost would then have to be similar to theirs, and this can be around £250 (one clinic I know charges £900 for a one-on-one session); or alternatively do impersonal group sessions of around 20 people at a time.

Also, if you look closely at the terms and conditions that you have to meet to get your money back at other clinics, you may see that you have to jump through many hoops within certain tight timescales and possibly also take a carbon monoxide test. You could find yourself going another 3 or 4 times to the same place to let them try other techniques on you, and failing to go to any one of these appointments – or even being 15 minutes late – invalidates the money-back guarantee. Not such a good deal after all! This can lead to bad will, ill-feeling and you losing a large chunk of money.

I prefer to be honest and up front with people - no small print. I charge £155 for a weekday, £175 for a Saturday morning. All sessions are one-to-one. Nothing more, nothing less. No catches. The programme takes around 3 to 3 1/2 hours. Approximately half of my clients come from personal recommendation. There is a free back-up session if required, but last year only 5.8% of my clients required this.

Look at what some past clients are saying (click on the letter):

Sarah - 11 months after she quit smoking Really changed her life and saved her job	Leena - 5 weeks after attending	Not feeling like a leper anymore! Kay stoped smoking after seeing me and so did her sister

 

According to New Scientist, hypnosis is the most effective way to stop smoking (up to 6 times more successful than patches); combine this with what I do and the effect can be amazing. If you are going to use hypnosis to help you stop smoking, forget all about those so-called (but well-meaning) hypnotherapists, saying it only takes an hour and who want to charge you around £250!  To do it properly and permanently takes about 3 hours - I know because I've found what works for most people and what doesn't.

Let me show you just how easy it can be when you put your mind to it. Never again will you have to think "I wish I could give up smoking". Come and do it properly and use your own mind purposely to help you. Soon you’ll no longer have to beat yourself up for putting those things in your mouth and setting light to them - you can be free forever if you approach quitting in the correct manner.

Press advertising is expensive, and so I prefer to spend most of my advertising budget by way of a loyalty scheme. My clients are walking, talking proof of my success. If you become a client of mine, then you are automatically entered into our loyalty scheme, which generates payments of £20 for each person you refer to me and who receives treatment. Say, for example, that you came to see me to stop smoking. Naturally, people will want to hear how you managed to stop so easily, and you can enthusiastically tell them all about what I did for you. The £20 payment scheme applies for every person that comes along and receives treatment based on your recommendation – for instance, recommend 7 people, and you get £140! This nearly pays for the cost of your own treatment, along with all the money you saved on cigarettes. Heads you win - tails you win!

A typical twenty-a-day smoker will spend something like £20,000 in continuing to smoke over a 10-year period. You could stop smoking right now for just a modest £155 and an investment of half a day of your time. That’s not bad when you consider you’ll be saving not only £20,000 in the next 10 years, but maybe even your life, too.

Obviously, results vary between individuals, due to a variation of factors out of our control – but we believe that you can be helped to stop smoking (if you really want to be helped) in just one single 3-hour session. You are given a Lifetime Guarantee that says that if, in the future, you want to come back because you had an urge to smoke, then I will give you another session absolutely free. It is not often that this is ever needed due to my approach. Who else is able to offer you this sort of support or guarantee? I know of just 2 or 3 local people who do this and they charge around £250 for a one hour session –less than half of the time I spend with you – and that's not including all the benefits of the loyalty scheme that pays you £20 for each and every recommendation you give.

If you are a GP, then please ask about our Stop Smoking Clinics which we can run at your surgery in the Birmingham and Solihull areas. This service is free to GPs as each person attending has to pay for their own entrance and treatment fee. A donation of 20% is returned to the surgery.

For serious help and Hypnotherapy Birmingham to Stop Smoking, ring me on 0121 707 3588.